george@vax1.UUCP (05/27/87)
If you call DEC and have problems getting the patch for "the security problem mentioned at DECUS/comp.os.vms", tell them you want ECO numbers 3, 4, and 5 for image SYS$LIBRARY:SECURESHR.EXE. Now, the question. Has anyone else applied the above patch? If so, did you find that programs that use the patched routines need to be relinked? Better yet, did you run into any problems at all? I had to relink gnuemacs; I believe the "access violation" error came from a call to the C routine getenv which I think does a getuai system call.
Z00.D-DOBKIN@KL.GBA.NYU.EDU.UUCP (05/27/87)
As George points out, GNU Emacs must be relinked after the patch is installed; other than that, we haven't run into any other problems. Daniel B Dobkin Irving Trust Co. -------
klb@philabs.Philips.Com (Ken Bourque) (05/27/87)
I spoke to someone at the Colorado Springs Customer Support Center about this last week. He told me that the patch had gone to the Software Distribution Center for worldwide distribution and should be arriving at customer sites any time now.